Engineering Manager, Agent

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Engineering Manager, Agent San Francisco, CA | Remote About the Role Descript is revolutionizing how traditional editing methodologies and AI technologies come together in every part of the creation process (recording, transcribing, editing, and sharing) to make it faster and easier than ever to create high quality content. We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Agent team, focused on building the world's best Agentic Video Editor, Underlord. This is a rapidly changing landscape, and there are many unique technical challenges that come with building high quality, cost-effective Agents for handling the multimodal nature of video. You will manage a team of 5-6 software engineers, report to the Head of AI Engineering, and partner closely with others across engineering, product, design, and AI research teams. Agent-driven editing is a major company focus and this role requires strong product thinking and strategic partnership skills as the team continues to develop novel, high-quality experiences around Agentic Video Editing. About the team: Descript's Agent launched in Open Beta in July 2025. Since then, we've been working on improving the user experience for chat-based editing, adding more capabilities into our agent, and improving our agent infrastructure to continue to scale as models get better and better. The Agent product engineering team partners very closely with our AI Research team, in order to achieve our mission to make video editing accessible to anyone. Your management peers and direct reports will be based in San Francisco, New York, and distributed across the US and Canada.

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